Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ We'd Only Just Begun ❯ We'd Only Just Begun ( Chapter 1 )

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By: sueb262
Sacrifice and consequence. 100-word ficlet.

Anime/Manga: Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Drama | Type: One Shot | Uploaded On: 08.15.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 572 | Visits: 475 | Status: Completed

We'd Only Just Begun
Sacrifice and consequence.
 
 
 
 
Free at last! She surges over the shattered door.
 
Is there time?So far away… He is failing. Her heart catches in her throat to see his weakness, to see him stagger so, to see his blood—his blood!—stain the snow.
 
The snow—so deep! Her frozen legs can hardly obey her mind's command: Move! Run! Her lungs burn with the thin, icy, mountain air.
 
Between them, quick—catch the blade! Her already escape-torn hands, heedlessly thrust heavenward, eagerly embrace the vengeful, hellbound silver death.
 
Ah, my second, my most precious love:too late known, and too soon lost.